I’m so done with Arrow now. It really is the worst. It caters to 25% of it’s viewers at the expense of the enjoyment of the rest. That 25% is given literally everything they ask for: an important comic character they want dead: She’s dead. Their ship: sex scenes. Their fav character: perfect at everything, always right, no conequences. NTA punished: characters mutilated or written off. Jealous of comic history: give the oc child a comic name.
They plan things they know a large percentage of fans will hate, lie and promise they won’t do those things to trick those fans into watching, then do them anyway and pretend it’s a ‘twist’ even though everyone already suspected they’d do it to cater to certain fans. F wont be evil. Wont be dead. Just as most people suspected. It will all be a taunt, just as many feared. But it will be touted as a ‘twist’ that the writer’s pet character is the one who saves the day in the end. That the title character, the hero with a long history, will (once again) play second fiddle to their pet oc.
I knew OF was endgame at this point. But I was really hoping the show could put the focus on the Green Arrow where it belongs and have the relationship be a bearable subplot with enough moments to keep shippers happy, but a small enough focus to please the majority of watchers. That’s not to be, I guess. Season 4 here we come. They’ve turned back in the direction that tanked the show.